The Dave Matthews Band Rocks! C&B on ’80s & ’90s Tunes

BUCK: Clay, of all the rejoin music that we have on this show, ’cause I’m gonna see Dave Matthews with some friends tonight. Of all the rejoin music we have on the show, what is your favorite one? You know we have these little quick snippets we come back to?

CLAY: That’s a great question. I think it’s probably anything… I hate to pick one. I like a lot of the nineties-era music, and a lot of times we go with eighties-era music, which I’m not as big of a fan of. So, I think we’ve got some Red Hot Chili Peppers when we come back. I like that. Here’s the real question for you, Buck.

BUCK: Can I just tell you? I go for Tears for Fears. I actually go for the eighties music. I like the Tears for Fears.

CLAY: Oh, you like that more.

BUCK: Yeah, that’s my favorite.

CLAY: What Dave Matthews song are you most likely to sing along with at tonight’s concert in New York City?

BUCK: I mean, all of them?

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: I celebrate Dave’s entire catalog, obviously. We grew up with Dave Matthews. For real.

CLAY: I know. I know. I’ve been to Dave’s concerts before, too. But I feel like Crash is probably the song that’s gonna get you the most.

BUCK: (laughing)

CLAY: I feel like… I’m just trying to think about which one you’re most enthusiastically going to sing along with.

BUCK: A sensitive soul, you could also do Satellite.

CLAY: Yeah, Satellite.

BUCK: There you go.

CLAY: Yeah, I’m trying to picture you in Madison Square Garden when the music is gonna move you the most.

BUCK: Oh. Oh. It’s a very emotional time.

CLAY: I think it’s Crash. I think it’s hard not to go along with Crash. I think you’re gonna reach your highest crescendo of sing-along during Crash would be my setting the odds.

BUCK: It’s very possible. I would say that Under the Table and Dreaming is one of the first CDs that I ever bought. I remember that. I had my boombox. Remember, we all had boomboxes?

CLAY: Oh, yeah.

BUCK: I had CD player boombox, and I was listening to Under the Table and Dreaming a lot. I actually had the Chili Peppers I bought, too, back in the day.

CLAY: The Walkman has come back in popularity. Have you noticed? My kids are obsessed. They think the 1980s is the greatest generation of all time ’cause I watch the eighties movies with them, which is one of the great things about being a parent.

BUCK: Eighties movies are amazing.

CLAY: Oh, so good! Back to the Future, the Goonies, the Indiana Jones movies. They’re all so incredible that it’s interesting to see their friends. They’re all very much… Some of the clothes that they wear, they’re all-in on the eighties because mom and dad watched the movies with them, and they’re like, “The eighties is the greatest generation in American history” in their minds.

BUCK: Ghostbusters.

CLAY: Ghostbusters. So good.

BUCK: The Breakfast Club. We could go on and on all the time. A lot of movies made in the last five or 10 years that nobody’s gonna remember in five or 10 years. But back in the eighties and the nineties, there’s some great stuff.

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CLAY: Buck, I can’t wait to see a video of you singing along with Crash —

BUCK: (singing) Sat-te-liiite.

CLAY: — inside of the Dave Matthews concert as loud as you can.

BUCK: It’s gonna be great, man. There’s some Dave Matthews listeners in this audience. There’s some out there.

CLAY: I’ve been. I like him.

BUCK: Yeah, of course. Dave’s politics not my thing, but, you know, plays those groovy tunes, man. I’m gonna play some saxophone! What happened to the saxophone? In the nineties, everyone loved the saxophone.

CLAY: It’s true.

BUCK: Now you never hear it anywhere anymore.

CLAY: Bill Clinton was a saxophone player.

BUCK: Well, now you’re ruining it for me.

CLAY: Remember that on Arsenio?

BUCK: (laughing)

CLAY: We’ll be back on Monday. Hope you guys have fantastic weekends. Thanks for hanging with us.

BUCK: Thanks for hanging out with Clay and Buck, everybody.

CLAY: We’ll be crashin’ into you on Monday.

BUCK: There we go.